Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made it more beautiful.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.